Lack of supply threatens food security

Lack of food, medicine, fuel and agricultural inputs poses a serious threat to food security.

After nine days of protests, street closures and marches disrupting the free flow of products to consumer centers, the agri-food sector unions have issued a strong warning.

Vegetables, dairy products and fuel are some of the products in short supply in supermarkets, shops and grocery stores in the country, which is likely to worry the population.

As a result of the closure the country is experiencing, farmers from the interior of the country who have come to supply the capital, They were forced to throw away hundreds of quintals of perishable food after spending several days on the street.

An example of this was the case of a producer from the province of Herrera, who spilled jugs of milk in one of the fasteners, because they were about to be damaged.

A humanitarian corridor was established in Pacora, which enabled the transfer of food from the province of Darién to the capital.

Representatives of the private sector Council for Monitoring and Compliance of State Agricultural and Food Policythey expressed concern about food shortages in homes and hospitals, which is also hurting domestic producers.

They added that road closures cause serious harm to people.

“Given the right that people have to food, as well as basic products for human survival, the lack of these threatens the health of the population in general and the destruction of the manufacturing sector,” they said.

The monitoring council asked the protesters to allow free transit of transportation that allows these essential products to reach Panamanian homes.